Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: phy: bcm7xxx: request and manage GPHY clock

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Sep 17 2020 - 21:46:21 EST


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 07:04:13PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> The internal Gigabit PHY on Broadcom STB chips has a digital clock which
> drives its MDIO interface among other things, the driver now requests
> and manage that clock during .probe() and .remove() accordingly.
>
> Because the PHY driver can be probed with the clocks turned off we need
> to apply the dummy BMSR workaround during the driver probe function to
> ensure subsequent MDIO read or write towards the PHY will succeed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew